Commission for Brooke. I swapped this elf for a bookcase. Now I have a place for my art books, and she has an elf.
This has been one of the busiest months of my life, and I’ve had painfully little time for art. Things will be back to normal in a few days, though, so hopefully posting will pick up again soon!
Went lifedrawing again! I’ve been in a pen sort of mood, so this session was INK-ONLY, which explains some of the goofy mistakes I couldn’t fix. Great model though, interesting poses and he held them well.
Another CHoW, this one for the topic “Royal Wedding”. (Gee, I wonder why.) Playing with the idea of civilization and the wilds, possibly because I was reading Midnight Tides at the time? I don’t know.
There’re so many problems with this, I don’t even. I’m not happy with how stiff my paintings have been looking; I liked the energy and expression of the initial sketch way better:
Eh. Learning.
God, this is boring.
I’ve been really drilling facial proportions and anatomy the past few days, after realizing how poor a grasp I actually had on, you know, that stuff. This is in theory an attempt at applying my learnings, but then I went around intentionally distorting stuff (oh, those eyes) and there wasn’t much to it to begin with so now it’s… yeah, I’m gonna stick with “boring”. Only posting because my desktop is littered with unfinished stuff and for all its flaws, this is done.
I really need a haircut. I think it’s becoming sentient. Soon, it will rebel.
(Karen you were saying how I hadn’t updated in a while so this is your fault.)
I’ve had a hard time motiviating myself to draw in my physical sketchbook as of late. Instead, I find myself noodling around in Photoshop at 3 AM when I’d meant to go to bed ages ago. Sketching is sketching, I suppose, and Photoshop sketching can get goofy and painterly real fast.
My characters from various D&D campaigns – Deacon the Deva Avenger, Rice the Human Rogue (or Daru Assassin, I suppose – campaign’s based on Steven Erikson’s Malazan books), and Noale who is already on this blog like twice already because I cannot stop drawing her.
I had Deacon on the brain after the portrait, because even though he was from last summer’s campaign, I kind of miss playing the guy. So here he is with the elven ninja child he inadvertently adopted.
And finally, some girls, from a file helpfully titled “Girliedoodles.psd”.
Another CHoW! Spent a ludicrously long time on this, but I’m proud of the result.
The white ravens come, and tell you they are angels. That they have heard your prayers. That you are chosen – your faith, your strength, a beacon in these dark times. That the sword is holy, and many great heroes have held it before you. And so you fight – for the remnants of holy places, for what innocents remain, for the spark of conviction that lead you here. You fight, hoping that the angels cannot see the dark thing in the corners of your mind. All your life you have heard the stories of the great heroes who came before you, and each ended, one by one, in death…
Lifedrawing at The Artel yesterday. I’m so out of practice, you don’t even know, but at least I know now that it’s on every two weeks, so… that’s something.
After lurking for literally years I’ve finally decided to take a shot at conceptart.org’s Character of the Week challenge. (I saw that Mike was doing it, and it spurred me into action. THANKS, MIKE!) So here’s this week’s challenge, a Snowmancer. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to paint snow and ice before – if I have, certainly not on this scale, so it was a whole lot of fun and a huge learning experience.
I’ve got a busy week coming up, but hopefully I can find enough time in my schedule to do it again. More and more, I’m convinced that this is the direction I should be taking my portfolio. Haven’t had this much fun with art in ages!
It’s funny – as a fantasy trope, I hate elves, yet, for some reason, I love drawing those ears. Years ago, this gave birth to a character whose sole purpose was to let me draw elf ears. I tend to redesign him every few years. He’s certainly changed since 2003 and 2006. (Also, the skill jump from ’03 to ’06, compared to ’06 to now is actually pretty depressing. I WILL WORK HARDER.)
